For those who don't know, Bug Bounty Programsare programs in which a person is rewarded by the concerned company/website after they have pointed out a bug on their website. They are also called vulnerability bounty programs or hacker bounty programs. And the researchers who find these bugs and flaws in these programs or websites are called bounty hunters. These reports from the researchers will help the companies to get rid of such bugs in time, before they become the object of exploitation by malicious hackers.
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1. Roy Castillo
This bug bounty hunter has a lot of success on his resume. Not only did he report stored XSS in Gmail for iOS, but he also found a bug in Facebook that exposed users' primary email addresses.
2. Frans Rosen
He is the founder of Detectify, Mr. Frans Rosén is responsible for finding the XSS vulnerability in Mega, which increased his bank account by €1,000 euros.
3. Nir Goldshlager
This guy is responsible for finding the Imperva Web Application Firewall bypass after his excellent report. In 2012, he was the first in the top rank of the Facebook Security Hall of Fame (White Hat Hacker). When he is not hunting bugs, he is busy with his duties as an SEO at Break Security.
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4. Emily Stark
Emily is known for her contributions to many crowdsourcing security platforms. She works as an engineer on the Google Chrome Security Team. Before joining the Google family, she was a core developer on the JavaScript application framework called Meteor.
5. Neal Poole
A Facebook Security Engineer working on the Product Security team and reporting dozens of flaws on his resume before joining the Facebook family. He was also inducted into the Facebook Whitehat Hall of Fame. He has also reported several bugs to Google and Mozilla.
6. Mazin Ahmed
He is the owner of blog.mazinahmed.net . He is responsible for reporting Multiple CSRF vulnerabilities in Facebook Messenger. His research into the W3 Total Cache Vulnerability leading to Full Deface (CVE-2014-9414) has earned him great recognition worldwide.
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7. Mohamed Ramadan
Mr. Ramadan made a big splash when he reported a bug in the Facebook Camera app for iOS that allowed malicious users to hack into a victim's system. He has also reported on Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple, and several others. He is also the author of the book CODENAME: Samurai Skills Course.
8. Shubham Shah
At the age of just 16, he was able to bypass 2-Factor-Authentication in Google, Yahoo and others. He showed his talent early on in a multitude of bounty hunter possessions. He saw his name in PayPal's Whitehat Hall of Fame. He is based in Sydney, and is currently busy with his duties at Bishop Fox as a security analyst.
9. Rafay Baloch
This man was rewarded for finding the remote code execution vulnerability in Paypal. His discovery led to Paypal offering him a job plus a hefty reward of $10,000. He also discovered the Android Stock Browser Address Bar Spoofing which was fatal for both current and previous versions of android.
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10. Bitquark
Since being declared the No. 1 bounty hunter, he now shares security bugs on https://bitquark.co.uk/, his personal blog. He has also received a $13,000 reward from Google for 'Google Sites'.
